Victorian Bobbin Lace making patterns teaching guide CD

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CD ROM Title:
Bobbin Lace Making.
This remarkable little publication on CD contains lace making instructions and patterns designed for teaching children how to make bobbin lace.
What is Bobbin Lace?
Bobbin lace, also known as pillow lace, is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow, the placement of the pins usually determined by a pattern or pricking pinned on the pillow.
More details about this CD Publication:
Contains 6 bobbin lace patterns with detailed instructions.
56 pages in PDF file format.
Originally published in 1906 by Scott, Greenwood & Son
as Home Lace Making.
An excerpt:
Preface:
A great many books have already been published on the subject of
pillow lace-making, and any who wish to learn this handicraft will
probably find in one or other of them an adequate guide. The aim of
this manual is not primarily to teach individuals how to make lace
- although doubtless they could learn by means of it.- but to help
those who can make lace to teach other to do so, and, more
especially, to teach a class of some numbers.
I have been teaching lace-making to village children for nearly
three years, but until I had evolved this method of teaching by
diagram and clearly demonstrated steps I was unable to teach more
than two at a time. Since I used the method pursued in this little
manual I hve taught a class of 10 children quite successfully, ad
they have learnt much more quickly than those I formely taught
individually. I therefore hope that the following directions may be
a help to those who are interested in teaching handicrafts. I have
mostly taught children of 11 or 12 years of age who were still
attending day-school, and some of my first pupils who are now at
service find time to do a little in their spare moments. It is
always a great source of pleasure to the children, and I consider
that it would be a very useful craft to teach in elementary or
continuation schools, to Band of Hope or G.F.S. members, or to
Girl's Clubs.
Special cleverness is not at all necessary, but for cultivating
concentration, neat-handedness, and intelligence it is a useful
lesson.
My oldest pupil was 72 and my youngest 6, so it will be seen that
it is easy for people of all ages to learn; but, as with most
things, the younger the better.
Although I have taught a class of 10 myself, I recommend that there
should not be more than eight pupils in a class. As they should
know their first pattern thoroughly after at most six lessons, a
good number of children could be taught in the year. Ut is
advisable to make the pupils do a good deal of the first pattern -
say six yards - before attempting the second; after that they will
learn one or more patterns quickly and easily.
The patterns in this book are progressive. After learning these,
any one of average intelligence should be able to pic up any
Torchon pattern without help. If a pupil has the aptitude and
plenty of time, she should not be content with making only Torchon,
but should try and learn to do finer work. Old English Buckingham
lace is very beautiful - not the modern Maltese - and a narrow edge
would be easily learnt by any one who had already made a variety of
Torchon laces. The 6th pattern in this book looks very pretty done
in silk - it can be obtained in cream, white, and black; about
1/4-1/2 per skein. One skein is enough for a good many yards.
CD ROM plays on your computer and is Windows and MAC computer compatible.
This is an easy to use computer CD ROM publication in the popular Adobe PDF file format which can be view by using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  The PDF file is very easy to use. You can enlarge the pattern pages on your computer screen, you can also print out select pages you are working on in the size that is easy for you to read.
This CD ROM is elegantly packaged and makes a wonderful gift!
Customer Testimonials and Reviews:
Hi, I just want to tell you I received the CD today! I absolutely love your elegant packaging! I think I will get another CD to give as a gift for my best friend who is crazy about crochet! Sue H.
Dear folks at Patterns-on-CD, thank you for shipping the cd out so quickly. I am new at crocheting and I am finding the instructions very clear and easy to follow! Your CD is so easy to use. I can print out just the pages I am working on and scribble my notes on the print-out without worry. My dog chewed part of the pattern sheet I was working on, but no worries, I just print out another sheet! I am keeping the print outs in a 3 ring binder and even printed  the lace images I like for the binder cover. Thank you for making this rare antique book available on CD ROM!
Debbie B.
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